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Newell On Half-Life 3: Don't Want To Excite The Fans Too Early

And in a new Penny Arcade interview, the Valve boss talks about his reluctance to fire up all the die-hard Half-Life followers by talking about the third installment too early.

"Part of the reason that we backed off talking so much about what was happening in the future is that when we’ve done that in the past, you know, with Half-Life 1 it was a year after we originally said it would be, Half-Life 2 basically if you go and read the forum posts apparently took us 50 or 60 years to get done, so we’re trying to be careful not to get people too excited and then have to go and disappoint them. So we’re sort of reacting in the other direction and saying, ‘okay, well let’s have things a little more baked before we start getting people all excited about it.’”

Keeping fans in the dark may seem like the wrong move, and Newell recognizes that keeping Half-Life 3 under wraps might prove annoying. At the same time, he says it's frustrating for his team to have to put the fans in that situation. It's a difficult situation but obviously, but Valve is toiling away, so have patience. Newell adds that if anyone has a way to cram more work hours into a day, feel free to let him know.

Bottom line? He'll talk about it when he's ready.

"I get a ton of email every day saying why aren’t you talking about Episode 3? And there are very good reasons why we’re not talking about Episode 3, which I can’t talk about yet, but I will."

Hmmmm... Perhaps I should actually finish this Half Life 2 game people seem to like. I played the first hour of it, then was distracted by Portal, new PS3 games and getting my Wii.

Too many great games, not enough time or money.

Sorry developers, but I can't support you all. I'm afraid this little Aussie gamer has to stick with the big ones like Batman, Skyrim, Uncharted, GTA, Red Dead, Metal Gear Solid (Rising doesn't interest me) and Assassin's Creed. No, Call of Duty doesn't make my list until they create a new engine and a campaign longer than 5 hours. I'm not much of a multiplayer person anyway.

thats fine and dandy, this is exactly why you dont announce a game so early!however they have, half life 2 episode 3 has been announced, quite a freaking while ago, so hes doing exactly what he does not want to!at least they could confirm if the next half life game will be epp 3 or a sequel.